But you’ll be hard-pressed to find a better deal that what Woot’s offering today – the Kindle 2 for $149.

For those unfamiliar with Woot!, the site offers one product a day, usually at a very low price touted by a very funny narrative, until it’s sold out. (And note that the Kindle isstill selling for $189 on Amazon proper. How many people will pay the extra $40 for it there, not knowing a subsidiary has it for much less?)

Watch this offering today, because it could signal a major change for Woot! How long will these rock-bottom Kindles last? Will they be available all day, or will the flow be shut off at some point?

Suddenly, the little site with the snarky ‘tude has the resources of Amazon behind it. It can acquire close-out goods at better prices, and possibly at higher volume. Or, if Amazon wants to push a new product with a remarkably low introductory price, Woot could be the perfect venue.

The parties say Amazon will operate Woot! as an independent subsidiary, as it does with acquisitions Zappos and Audible. In an e-mail to employees that pretty much says it all about Woot!’s corporate culture, CEO Matt Rutledge explained the new relationship:

Over the next few days, you will probably read headlines that say "Matt Rutledge revealed to be monstrous pseudo-human creation of Jeff Bezos." You might even see this photo making the rounds. Rest assured that these rumors have nothing to do with our final decision. We think now is the right time to join with Amazon because, quite simply, every company that becomes a subsidiary gets two free downloads until the end of July, and we very much need that new thing with Trent Reznor’s wife on our iPods.

Other than that, we plan to continue to run Woot the way we have always run Woot – with a wall of ideas and a dartboard. From a practical point of view, it will be as if we are simply adding one person to the organizational hierarchy, except that one person will just happen to be a billion-dollar company that could buy and sell each and every one of you like you were office furniture. Nevertheless, don’t worry that our culture will suddenly take a leap forward and become cutting-edge. We’re still going to be the same old bottom-feeders our customers and readers have come to know and love, and each and every one of their pre-written insult macros will still be just as valid in a week, two weeks, or even next year. For Woot, our vision remains the same: somehow earning a living on snarky commentary and junk.

Don’t you wish that guy was your CEO?

Woot! even put together a rap video featuring a stuffed monkey to explain it further:

Congratulations, Woot! Here’s hoping you can indeed stay true to your original vision. Still, we like the idea of cheap Kindles.